Russell's ebook Library
The Atrocity Exhibition
J. G. Ballard
The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force.The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he trav...
Cocaine Nights
J. G. Ballard
In Cocaine Nights , J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery.The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in...
Concrete Island
J. G. Ballard
An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control and crashing through the motorway barrier.When he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impos...
Crash
J. G. Ballard
The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with e...
The Crystal World
J. G. Ballard
Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses.Most...
The Day of Creation
J. G. Ballard
In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until...
The Drought
J. G. Ballard
An apocalyptic dystopia like no other.Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search ...
The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of Crash and Cocaine Nights.Set in the near future, the ice caps have melted and the planet basks in an unendurable heat. L...
Hello America
J. G. Ballard
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned.Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable — the Bering Strait has b...
High-Rise
J. G. Ballard
The classic novel of luxury and depravity, now a major motion picture.High Rise is a prescient story of class warfare. When explosive loyalties form inside a luxurious apartment block isolated from the rest of society, modern elevators become fierce ...
Kingdom Come
J. G. Ballard
Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport.When the prime suspect is released without...
Millennium People
J. G. Ballard
Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in this “fascinating” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun.Never more timely, Millennium People “seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while underm...
Running Wild
J. G. Ballard
Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence.A massacre rocks a suburban utopia — thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing — in Runn...
Rushing to Paradise
J. G. Ballard
Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden.But paradise is not quite what it seems in this "searing" (Kirkus Re...
Super-Cannes
J. G. Ballard
A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes.Jane is to work as a doctor for those who live in this ultra-modern workers’ paradise. But what caused her predec...
The Unlimited Dream Company
J. G. Ballard
When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead.Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is surreally transformed. Vultures invade th...
The Wind From Nowhere
J. G. Ballard
The wind came from nowhere... a super hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels an...
